Adams, Henry Carter (1851-1921)

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Jane Addams to Henry Carter Adams, March 6, 1901

Henry Carter Adams to Jane Addams, March 7, 1901

Jane Addams to Helen Fisher Peck, December 11, 1919

William Edward Dodd to Jane Addams, January 29, 1922

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Birth Date

1851-12-31

Death Date

1921-08-11

Birthplace

Davenport, IA

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Henry Carter Adams was an economist, professor, and department chair at the University of Michigan from 1887-1921. He served as Statistician to the Interstate Commerce Committee and worked on the 1900 census. Adams spent a year in China in 1913, helping to frame the Chinese constitution.

He married Bertha Hammond Wright in 1890. They had three children: Henry Carter Adams, II, Theodore Wright Adams, and Thomas Adams.